“They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t – the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, “Why don’t you show the other stuff?” I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.”

“They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn’t – the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, “Why don’t you show the other stuff?” I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.”

— Claes Oldenburg